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Position:Home>Theater & Acting> Shakespeare...Macbeth?Question: Shakespeare!.!.!.Macbeth!? I recently saw Macbeth and had a few questions: Why did Shakespeare use supernatural stuff!? Are we supposed to believe that the witches or Banquo's ghost are real!? I don't get it!.
And why do the witches and ghosts only appear to certain people!? thanks a bunch! i'm not much of a shakespeare person, so i don't get anything : )Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: There are actually a couple of different ways to interpret it nowadays!. But yes, in Shakespeare's time, everyone was a firm believer in superstition and the paranormal, so it would not have been that odd to see witches about!. You can't really think of the Weird sisters as your moder-day witches, they were more like Wickens!. Or if you don't want to believe they were Wickens, some say they are the Sisters of Fate as in Greek mythology, determining who lives and who dies!. Here's the cool part which explains why only certain people see the ghost and Weird sisters (if they are supernatural): in Scotland, there were certain types of mushrooms and fungi that the soldiers would have eaten for survival!. Some of these plants contained halucinogens! Macbeth and Banquo certainly would have eaten these during battle, which explains the first Weird sisters sighting!. Prolonged internal exposure to the halucinogens could have a more permanent effect, which can explain why Macbeth still sees the Weird sisters later on!. That, and Banquo's ghost primarily appeared to guilt Macbeth and drive him further into madness!.Www@QuestionHome@Com In Shakespeare's day the people believed that witches and ghosts were real!. The ghost in Hamlet was 'real' to the Elizabeathan audience!. The same for Macbeth or Midsummer Night's Dream!. Ghosts and faries existed!. So as a modern audience we need to suspend disbelief and accept them as real to understand the plays!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps at its petty pace to the last syllable of recorded time etc!. etc!. a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing!Www@QuestionHome@Com um!.!.!.i havent read the whole book but i no that banquo appears as a ghost in front of macbeth at the dinner 2 make him feel guiltyWww@QuestionHome@Com |